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ANGEL is the first 1D-heterostructure NEGF to include the coupling of electrons with a multi-mode light field to have spontaneous light emission.

Since this scattering mechanism is highly nonlocal, a diagonal scattering approximation like the one encountered in most, if not all, simulators would be invalid. ANGEL has the ability to choose how many off-diagonals are included in the scattering self-energies.

This functionality requires enormous computing power, and to keep it feasible some components had to be limited to very simple descriptions. ANGEL currently implements an effective mass band structure for both electrons and holes, although it is prepared to have more sophisticated continuum Hamiltonians like the multiband k.p Hamiltionians which are so successful in optoelectronics.

ANGEL is MPI-parallelized in energy space and is a modular, highly object-oriented code to easily exchange individual components.

ANGEL was developed by Sebastian Steiger in 2008-09 during his PhD at the Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich.

Publications

S. Steiger, R. Veprek and B. Witzigmann, "Electroluminescence from a Quantum-Well using NEGF", Proc. IWCE 2009, published by IEEE